Mark Johnson

For the past twenty years, Mark Johnson has astounded the banjo world with his dynamic and innovative banjo playing. A long-standing association with the Rice Brothers – Wyatt, Larry,Ronnie and (especially) Tony – with whom he made his first recording, helped forge his unique "Clawgrass" style. Since then he has made several CDs, both solo and with mandolinist Emory Lester - the duo's "Acoustic Rising" was nominated for IBMA's Instrumental Album of the Year in 2007.

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The rhythmic pulse and percussive sounds of old-time clawhammer banjo have been ringing through the hills and valleys of America since the instrument was brought to these shores from Africa in our earliest colonial days. It has since become a uniquely American style, still current and exciting today, driving the beat along with fiddles, guitars, singers and dancers wherever people ...
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